Tag Archives: Poppies
Wordless Wednesday – Ice skating to Ravel’s Bolero
Posted in Bees, Flowers, Wordless
Tagged Gardening, Honey bee, Horticulture, Hoverfly, Leaf-cutter bee, opium poppies, Photography, Poppies
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Wordless Wednesday – Cornfield poppies
Posted in Wildflowers, Wordless
Tagged agriculture, Common poppy, cornfield, countryside, Gardening, nature, Papaver rhoeas, Photography, Poppies
15 Comments
Remembrance Sunday
“Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough’s army, than to think they’d … Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday – The Seed Bank
Posted in Flowers, Nature, The home garden, Wordless
Tagged Gardening, Photography, pollen beetles, Poppies, Seed heads
9 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – PoP! goes my heart *
* From the Hugh Grant/ Drew Barrymore rom com ‘Music and Lyrics’ – seemed like an appropriate reaction to these glorious poppies!
Posted in Flowers, The home garden, Wordless
Tagged Gardening, Hugh Grant, Papaver orientale, perennials, Photography, Poppies, red
17 Comments
Top of the Pops …. or I love poppies
Yes, I love poppies: Flanders poppies, opium poppies, oriental poppies, Shirley poppies. I also stare longingly at the acid loving varieties, but make do with the varieties I can grow here in Alkali Land. Luckily, with the Shirley poppies providing … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Plants, The home garden
Tagged beauty, Bees, Beetle, Flanders poppies, Flowers, nature, opium poppies, oriental poppies, Poppies, Shirley poppies
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